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17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet aascended to My Father; but go to bMy brethren and say to them, c‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to dMy God and your God.’ ”  
18 aMary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.  

The Apostles Commissioned

19 aThen, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were1 assembled, for bfear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, c“Peace be with you.”  
20 When He had said this, He ashowed them His hands and His side. bThen the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.  
21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! aAs the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”  
22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
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John 20:16-19

John 20:16-19 absolutely proves which Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread God intends us to use to determine wavesheaf Sunday. These verses show that Jesus ascended to the Father to be accepted on the day following the weekly Sabbath. In the year Jesus was crucified, Passover was on a Wednesday. He was still in the grave when the first day of Unleavened Bread, a Thursday Sabbath, passed by. He rose from the dead late on the weekly Sabbath and was "waved" before God for acceptance on the Sunday morning following the weekly Sabbath. The Pharisees and rabbinic Jewry were wrong in using the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread Sabbath. The Sadducees were correct in using the weekly Sabbath. Taken together, these factors point conclusively to the wavesheaf day as being on a Sunday, the day following the weekly Sabbath within the Days of Unleavened Bread.

John W. Ritenbaugh
Countdown to Pentecost 2001

Related Topics: Days of Unleavened Bread | Jesus Christ's Resurrection | Wavesheaf | Wavesheaf Day must be a Workday | Wavesheaf not on a Sabbath | Wavesheaf Offering Must Follow Weekly Sabbath | Wavesheaf Symbolism




Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing John 20:19:

John 20:24-29
1 John 5:1-8


 
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